Balance of trade -- Connecticut; Connecticut -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Japan -- Foreign economic relations -- Connecticut; Connecticut -- Foreign economic relations -- Japan
Due to the manufacturing and export-driven orientation of Connecticut's economy, the impetus behind educational reform in the state during the 1980s must be understood in the context of concern that resulted from increased American competition with...
Education, Secondary -- Law and legislation -- Connecticut; Vocational education -- Connecticut; School-to-work transition -- Connecticut
The 1990s led to efforts in southwestern Connecticut to create school-to-career programs. Programs focused on teaching students about careers and opportunities. Funded through various grants, they coincided with the School-to-Work Opportunities Act...
As Denmark becomes increasingly part of the global economy, the ethnic homogeneity it has long experienced is changing. Beginning in the 1960s with the arrival of Turkish immigrants, Danes received their first experience with a resident population...
For over thirty-five years average mathematics scores of students in the United States have been below the international average, indicating problems with performance when compared with students from other countries. The United States National...
My weekly reader -- History; Children's periodicals, American -- History
Charles Palmer Davis, visiting a one-room school in New England at the turn of the century, asked the pupils, "Who is the President of the United States?" Of the twenty-five first to fifth graders, only two knew the answer, one of whom was Davis's...
Cuba is a unique country that is currently facing important challenges. The political system that was sparked by the 1959 Revolution may be coming to an end. Although it is extremely difficult to predict what the future might bring to the country,...
